Saint Luke

This page lists items in the database related to Saint Luke the Evangelist, patron saint of physicians and surgeons, and a physician himself, according to Saint Paul’s epistle to Colossians (14,4), where he calles him “the beloved physician”:

• Saint Luke’s statue in Lourdes

• Saint Luke’s statue in the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital, Lübeck

• Saint Luke’s tomb in Padua

• St Luke’s Chapel in King’s College Hospital, London

• “St. Luke Healing the Dropsical Child”, by Giovanni Lanfranco (c. 1620) in the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica (Palazzo Barberini), Rome

• Tempio Votivo dei Medici d’Italia in Duno

• Winged ox statue in Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia

Bibliography

– A.Pazzini, I santi nella storia della medicina, Casa Editrice Mediterranea, Roma 1937, pp. 126-133.